And like all good mothers one day she will grow into a red giant, engulfing her children and obliterating all life on earth.
That is the true meaning of mothers day ❤️
Did everyone forget about the galaxy? It’s also a giant circle, and the sun orbits it like we orbit the sun.
Perhaps the real question should be “Where is the Galaxy taking us?”
“Where is the Galaxy taking us?”
Towards the andromeda galaxy which is over twice the size of the Milky Way. We are hurtling towards each other at about a quarter millions miles per hour.
For thousands of years after you die, that little fuzzy spot near Cassiopeia will slowly get larger and larger in the sky, and in about a four billion years, long after the Earth’s oceans have dried up and the sun is a giant, reddish monster hovering in the sky, and our magnetic field will have long since died out, our atmosphere will have been mostly stripped away and the weather will feel like being on the highest mountains in an oven, the night sky will be covered with a dazzling display of the Andromeda galaxy overhead, spiral arms visible with the naked eye stretching from horizon to horizon.
We will merge, in a series of passes through each other, with almost no stars actually colliding most likely, although a good number will be ejected into the emptiness of intergalactic space, and will finally settle into a new shape, and may trigger a new phase of star formation as new clouds of gas and dust collide and collapse in the new super-galaxy.
The Milky way and Andromeda may not collide.
Interesting article but it’s sad to see that website using dark patterns like subscribe popups and fucking with the back button.
I don’t know between the firewall, pihole and ublock I don’t see ads anywhere, not even the amazon ads.
First thank you for filling in OP’s coverup of Mama’s intentions.
We will merge, in a series of passes through each other, with almost no stars actually colliding
So then, we’re just going for a ride to a farm upstate :(
Knowing there’s no chance imaginable of being able to witness all this is so depressing… My death anxiety feeds on thoughts like this.
The galaxy is taking us to see its friend
Now do the local group and super clusters! The universe is wild!
Fun, fun, we skip along together!
Swirling towards the center…
Where there is no pain and we are truly together, forever.
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Eat at Arby’s
I saw that once and thought that it was an actual jingle for an Arby’s commercial x_x
burma shave
Wait till you read about the Lambda Model
I read “Dark energy” and immediately thought of Voldie the wart (Voldemort)
The fun stops when you find out about Sagittarius A.
Not necessarily. I like to think I’m pretty resilient.
ok! time for all those years of science to finally pay off:
Would you still love “her” if you knew that, every single second, thousands of waves of extreme radiation from the Sun, traveling at a million light-years per millisecond, hits our planet’s atmosphere? These waves slowly erode one of the only protections that we have against the Sun. But don’t worry, this planet has several more tricks up – and under – the crust of the Earth. The iron core of the earth emits a geomagnetic field that extends into space, creating a region called the magnetosphere. This magnetosphere blocks most of the Sun’s deadly rays, deflecting them back into space.
(also I didn’t get this off of Google. I just have a really good memory. also I added the bolded words)
million light-years per millisecond
Gonna need a citation on that one! ;)
kidding aside, Mars is a great example of what will happen to Earth should our core stop generating our magnetic field. Also… Auroras!
Yes! The Auroras are the result of the Sun’s rays that were rebounded and sent to both of the poles. Also, I don’t know the exact speed, but its really reeeeeaaaaalyyyyy fucking fast. Like, my brain can’t even fathom how fast it is. I can’t imagine the scientists that study this every single day think. Are they like “oh shit the sun is just about to shart some deadly fucking radiation time to do some science to make it stop” I am actually convinced that science is magic, and every scientist that ever lived had to say some oath to never tell people that they’re wizards. Meanwhile we’re like “oh ok they have this tool that looks like a medieval torture device they either must be really smart or stole that from a museum or time-traveled and yoinked that shit and brought it back here”
Um, yes because without those waves plants wouldn’t grow and we wouldn’t be alive.
Mama knows how we behave. She’s taking us to the nearest galactic playground where she’ll abandon us.
It’s my understanding that the specific direction on this relative motion graphic is just made-up, but it does do a good job of reminding people that we’re orbiting the galactic center.
i see, that’s why the ecliptic and the milky way don’t align on the sky
While I’ve never seen it illustrated until now, I thought it was kind of obvious that this is our reality from outside our solar system. Is it not?
Does the sun actually travel in a straight line, or do the orbits of the planets wobble it, and to what extent?
Everything in the solar system (even the Son) orbit around the center of mass of everything in the solar system. This epicenter is just outside of the Son, on the side that Jupiter is. So the Son wobbles by a little bit more than 1 of its radii.
Juipiter’s orbit wobbles it, as others said, the barycenter of the system is outside the sun’s radius, but the scale of the planets vs their orbits is so great such a small wobble is imperceptable if you can see multiple orbits.
Yeah - you’re onto it. Relative to what?
IDK sometimes it feels like everything is just gonna explode one day
The sun is not a sweet mother, he is armed with the great serpent Xiuhcoatl and demands the hearts of our enemies.
Wait a minute… We’re moving?
Always have been.
